by Chris Mato Nunpa, PhD
retired Associate Professor of History at Southwest Minnesota State University and author of the upcoming (Sept. 2019) The Great Evil: Genocide, the Bible, and the Indigenous People of the United States… 522 more words

This is an exciting and long-awaited news for us the genocide survivors globally! For the first time, two leaders of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been convicted of genocide. 136 more words

The two still living Khmer Rouge leaders have finally been condemned this Friday to life imprisonment for genocide. It is the first time that this term is used by the international court to qualify crimes committed against the Vietnamese, Chams, and other religious minorities. 211 more words

Two ex-Khmer Rouge leaders have been found guilty and sentenced for genocide in what is possibly the last trial by the Khmer Rouge tribunal. The two leaders were Nuon Chea, 92, a former deputy leader under Pol Pot in the Khmer Rouge regime, and Khieu Samphan, 87, ex-Head of State. 155 more words

Two top officials of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge were found guilty of genocide by a U.N.-backed court on Friday, almost four decades after the apocalyptic regime which oversaw the “Killing Fields” was overthrown.87 more words